Word: withheld
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...look at what has happened to the graduate students over the past year--practices that the NLRB classified as a violation of federal labor law because they intimidated and threatened them. When 250 graduate student TAs instituted a "grade strike," in which grades for fall semester courses were withheld in order to pressure the university into recognizing a union for TAs, the university threatened a ban on future teaching, academic disciplinary hearings, negative letters of recommendation and possible expulsion. To respond, Yale's Graduate Employees and Students Organization (GESO) filed a suit with the NLRB earlier this year; after several...
According to the complaint, one of the three examiners told McLatchey to "go home and have your baby," and withheld her exam grade...
Many issues involved in the strike particularly affect women, Kessler-Harris said. For example, she said, the institution of merit pay with no starting base wage not only undermines collective bargaining, but also has contributed historically to the abuse of women, who were particularly vulnerable to having pay withheld as a means of sexual harassment
...undergraduates' nude antics caused more upheaval than they had expected. Alumni said that as a result of their actions, older alumni felt both alienated and outraged--and withheld funds from the House after a picture of two nude students, wet from the pool, was published in the 1970 yearbook
...thing to have happened," said a Currier House sophomore who asked that her identity be withheld...